Matul Remrit: the illustrated Dwarf Fortress story comes to an end

Breathing life into the diary of an entirely text-based game must be a difficult prospect. For Kevin Snow's Dwarf Fortress playthrough it meant an ambitious collaboration, bringing together a well told character-driven (and emergent) narrative, original art, music and an isometric visualiser . The result was Matul Remrit , a detailed and inventive telling of a tale that began in 2010. That story has now come to end, finishing the series with a six part chapter of videos, comics and diary entries.

The full project is dramatic, sombre, surprising and funny. It's also huge, experimentally told from the perspective of the featured dwarves - "a band of dregs who struggle to build their

new home amidst strife, internal politics, and a scourge of elf attacks."

It's well worth taking the time to work your way through the epic undertaking. Here's a brief excerpt: